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That’s right, Valve is tight-lipped, but internally they don’t seem to stop. After the success of Steam Deck, it looks like they’re going to try and grab market share in the desktop console area again.

After the failure of their Steam Machine in 2015, it seems that they want to take advantage of their good run to try again.

And how do we have indications of this? Well, thanks to various findings made by Valve data miners, and one in particular from Brad Lynch, who has always been a source to consider when talking about Valve.

It seems that, according to the findings, the new standalone Steam Console would have the codename of Fermont and several pieces of evidence reveal part of its nature.

First of all, Fermont would feature a full-size HDMI port being hardwired directly to the card. This rules out this new Steam hardware being, for example, a dock, as a USB-C port is used for such tasks, not the HDMI Type-A port we are talking about and found on TV-focused consoles and other desktop computers.

On the other hand, it is also known that the board being used is an AMD Lilac ‘F7F’, which would follow the numbering of other codes associated with their previous hardware, such as F7A (F7Aerith) or F7G (F7Galileo) which ended up being the Steam Deck Oled. This F7F would correspond to F7Fremont.

Stay tuned because Valve is thinking about offering us something more than SteamOS handhelds.

We’ll see if it’s a Valve console with SteamOs or something more like a TV Box.